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WEDNESDAY 24TH AUGUST 2011
THE BBC is going to rent Top Gear specials via Facebook, starting
with the Polar Special (available now) and followed by the US Road
Trip (August 28) and the Vietnam Road Trip (September 4). But as
Gizmodo’s Alex Kidman points out, Top Gear is reported to be the
most pirated show in the world, so will fans flock to Facebook to pay
or will they just keep watching it for nothing?
The episodes will be available via a new video-on-demand
application developed by the BBC and can be rented using
Facebook’s credits system for $US3 each, says TechWorld, which
reports that Hollywood’s Miramax studio is also making some of its
films available via Facebook.
There’s a shift going on in the gaming world which is seeing the
industry become less about technology and more about art,
reports Ben Eltham.
WHILE there are certainly art forms that struggle for recognition and
which critics often fail to engage with (dancing about architecture,
anyone?), no other sector of the cultural industries... Read more
REVIEWS
8pm tonight, ABC1
THE best thing about Poh’s Kitchen is Poh’s unrestrained laugh and quirky
personality. Such a pleasant change from all those pretentious celebrity
chefs who take pompous pleasure in presenting 20-layered pastry
creations and haughty cuisine mere mortals could never hope to replicate.
South Australian artist-turned-chef Poh Ling Yeow is more like a mini
Maggie Beer – it wouldn’t really matter what she’s cooking, you’re happy
to go along for the ride just for the pleasure of her company. No wonder
the ABC snapped her up after she finished as runner-up in the 2009
MasterChef.
In her second series, Poh’s Kitchen On the Road, she travels around the
country meeting food producers and chefs, not just... Read more
TELEVISION
GAMING
BOOK
Poh’s Kitchen
SUZIE KEEN
CRIKEY
HEATHER TAYLOR JOHNSON
By José Saramago
Harvill/Secker, $29.95
JOSÉ Saramago’s Cain is a novel about the further
adventures of the Biblical hero, going well beyond
the killing of his own brother Abel.
Cain traverses land and time, and is not only
witness to many of the Old Testament’s narratives,
but an active participant. He talks Abraham out
of killing his son Isaac - and a good thing, too,
as the angel who played the original role was
unfortunately delayed. He also helps Noah to see
that the ark cannot logistically remain in the valley
when the rains come, or it will tip over and sink; he
induces some angelic helpers to place it on the sea
right before the storm.
Saramago is Portugal’s Nobel Prize-winning author
and, given the drama of the Old Testament and
the back story of the book’s namesake, one would
imagine Cain to be layered with... Read more
Cain
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Are video games art?
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